Fractured Axel

benjai · Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:00 pm

While mucking about with the DSUL in zero wind today I found an interesting little combination and wondered if it had a name? Basically, starting from a K2000 start position (nose down, on one leading edge, back of the kite facing the pilot and lines over the trailing edge), make a K2000 input but instead of recovering from the lazy-like spin, let it over-roatate and land back in K2000 start position on the other leading edge. Then repeat but the other way. I managed three in a row - a sort of K2000-and-a-bit cascade. Anyhow, anyone know what this is called?

* and does anyone care!

krijn · Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:36 pm

i posted something similar on the dutch forum about half a year ago

i named it: K2000 1/2

the K1999 1/2 is also possible, just spin it a bit less than 360 degrees

you can just play around and add 360 one or twice or ...

Krijn

Stink_Finger · Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:42 pm

When does the name of a kite trick become 'official'? OK some tricks are pretty self-explainatory 'axle' 'flare' fade' 'yo-yo' etc, but how the hell do you get K2000 as a name? or 'taz-machine'?
If Benjai the first peson to develop a trick and then other people go out & copy his combination of moves that make up the example above could you for example call it a 'benjai'?

Tomorrow I'm going to invent the 'Stink Finger'!

I'll let you know the inputs requred for a 'Stink Finger' when I've worked out what one is! LOL

Infinitive · Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:48 pm

Cool trick when done smoothly, which isn't easy - discussed here a year or two ago. We called it a k2000 cascade. Keep at it - ground-work is definitely a gold-mine of neglected manouvers.

How is a "fade" a self-explanatory name?!

gui · Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:05 pm

K2000 is the nickname of the guy who invented it... (stephane briband, from Drole d'Oiseau...)

Taz-machine... i don't know, but, far as i know, roger tessa-gambassi invented it... maybe from the Tazmanian Devil in Bug's Bunny cartoons... turning all over himself all the time, and witch name is Taz... but, it's my interpretation

KaoS · Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:14 am

Stink_Finger wrote:
I'll let you know the inputs required for a 'Stink Finger' when I've worked out what one is! LOL

I'd have thought that was self explanatory... surely it involves bending forward and placing a digit... :lol:

Jason · Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:42 pm

Nice trick, I managed a few of these last year when I was trying to make a vid, not easy to get consistent. I'm all for keeping the names self explanatory. I can't keep track of all the names now but definitely think that if something is cascade-ed it doesn't need another name for the cascase version.

Will wait to see that stink-finger cascade Kevin. :-)

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